{"id":14925,"date":"2024-12-17T15:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=14925"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:59:53","slug":"filling-out-durhams-tree-canopy-seedling-by-seedling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2024\/12\/17\/filling-out-durhams-tree-canopy-seedling-by-seedling\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling out Durham’s tree canopy, seedling by seedling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The message went out over a neighborhood listserv this fall with an unusual request: a plea for native tree seeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese seeds will be grown into saplings that will be used in local plantings or given to the public \u2014 for FREE!\u201d the message read.<\/span><\/p>\n

The seeds in question are planted by Clay Bordley at Panther Creek Forest Farm, a 28-acre expanse of land in Durham. Bordley leads the Durham Community Seed Collection Project, which has collected native seeds ranging from red buds to pawpaws<\/span> since Bordley began the project last year. The seeds grow into seedlings at Bordley\u2019s farm and the resulting trees are then planted across Durham with the help of Keep Durham Beautiful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bordley, a pediatric emergency physician at Duke Children\u2019s Hospital, bought the farmland 10 years ago as a joint venture with his 35-year-old daughter, Eliza Lawdley<\/span>.<\/span> Leigh Bordley, his wife and a former Durham school board member, assists on the farm along with the rest of Bordley\u2019s family. The land,<\/span> a former tobacco farm, had been left unattended with limited biodiversity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"pantherToday, the farm is a wide green space bordered by forest. Sections of the land boast trees at various stages of development, in the ground and in air pruning boxes. A shed area in the center holds tools and more seeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Nov. 17, 68 volunteers gathered around the shed, adjusting their makeshift work gloves. Throughout the day, an annual event known as the \u201cBig Dig,\u201d they dug up the seeds Bordley had planted and replanted them, potting 878 trees in total. The trees will be left to grow, separated into rows by species, for one to two years before they are transplanted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s a little bit of trying to figure out the [tree] market, which is hilarious, because I’m not an entrepreneur, I am not an arborist, I am not a forester,\u201d Bordley says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet he looks the part, donning casual clothes and a weathered smile to labor on the farm outside of his hospital shifts. He is often joined by<\/span> his dog, Raydo, a rescued bluetick hound whom he calls \u201can ambassador of love.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"pantherBordley is a designated \u201cTree Keeper\u201d for Keep Durham Beautiful. Among other things, the nonprofit works with volunteers to plant trees in local neighborhoods where the green canopy is lacking, says executive director Tania Dautlick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Planting trees across the city brings environmental benefits \u201csuch as obviously cooling the sidewalks and streets and homes, and reducing pollution in the air and the water\u2026 and creating a more soothing, beautiful environment for people to enjoy outdoors,\u201d Dautlick says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Durham Community Seed Collection Project is a three-way collaboration between Bordley, Keep Durham Beautiful and Project Pando. Project Pando, a Raleigh nonprofit associated with the tree care company Leaf & Limb, conducts a similar seed collection effort in Raleigh, and Bordley has expanded that work into Durham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bordley worked with a previous partner to plant trees across Durham until that group shut down in January. He then shifted his energy to KDB, saying, \u201c\u2018Guess what? I\u2019m now your whac-a-nut volunteer who’s gonna kind of drive your tree operation.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m just a guy with a farm who’s growing trees and doing my thing, but it helps to have the title of some larger organization that actually has somebody who does marketing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bordley voluntarily collects the seeds and grows them on his farm, and then KDB eventually plants or gives away the matured trees in the Durham community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His tree-planting efforts are entirely self-funded. He takes on all costs, from pots to planting material. As far as he knows, Bordley is unique in this effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, there’s certainly other farms that are doing agroforestry and things with trees, but they’re not essentially raising trees to give away back to Durham,\u201d he remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bordley attributes his interest in the environmental benefits of trees to his health background.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI really care about that,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I thought \u2018I have space, it\u2019s not doing anything, I can\u2019t grow vegetables. Wonder what would happen if I just threw out some acorns?\u2019\u201d He did, and 90 percent of those acorns germinated by springtime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bordley plants some seeds in the ground and others in air pruning boxes in what he calls his \u201ctest kitchen.\u201d The air pruning boxes can help keep tap roots from growing too far underground. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Later, trees from the boxes can be teased apart and planted into the ground or into a pot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a novel way of growing trees in a small space, so I\u2019m kind of smitten with the idea,\u201d he says. He points at one box: \u201cThese are all black walnuts\u2026I\u2019m guessing there\u2019s almost 100 trees in there.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is<\/span> the second year Bordley has collected seeds, but he\u2019s advertising the process more intentionally this year through nonprofit newsletters and listserv communications. Panther Creek Forest Farm is one of the project\u2019s seven seed drop-off sites in Durham, where people can leave their seeds in a bin and use a QR code, email, or text to notify Bordley of the drop-off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dautlick from KDB emphasizes the value of native seeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe trees that have successfully grown here and dropped the seeds are accustomed to our climate, and you know, the particular microenvironments that we have in Durham,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd so then growing the seedlings on volunteer farms really helps us get a greater diversity of native species in the Durham tree canopy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once Bordley collects the seeds, he says, \u201cI kind of am just learning as I go what I can grow. Oaks are super-easy. Black walnuts, super-easy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The hackberry tree? \u201cTurns out they were like God’s gift to nature,\u201d Bordley says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pawpaws, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey make these fruits that are about the size of avocados, and this is the northern edge of their range\u2026,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd people are now enamored with pawpaws. Not all pawpaws are tasty, but somehow it’s trendy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When he has a new batch of seeds, Bordley performs a float test by dumping the seeds in a bucket of water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ones that float to the top are no good,\u201d he says. \u201cSome little critter got in there\u2026There\u2019s air in there now. So it also means that the acorn or the seed is unlikely to grow.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once the trees are potted and grow into seedlings, they will be planted elsewhere in Durham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The trees become more and more beneficial over time for the community. Dautlick recalls one Keep Durham Beautiful tree planting about 10 years ago along Driver St. and Guthrie Ave. in East Durham as having those benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose trees are getting big now, and you can really see the impact that it’s having,\u201d she says. The trees are \u201cmaking those communities feel much more welcoming in terms of just softening the road by having green trees and shading the sidewalks so people feel more comfortable being outside and enjoying getting to see their neighbors.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dautlick hopes to use the trees planted at Panther Creek Farm to continue improving the urban landscape across Durham.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to see more trees in places where there aren’t any right now, especially places that are especially hot and along sidewalks and shading houses so that they can lower the heat and energy bills,\u201d she says. \u201cWe’d like to see a greater diversity of native species in the community.\u2026That’s good for the environment and that’s good for the people.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep Durham Beautiful plants most of the trees that Bordley grows. They will collaborate on another tree planting on Dec. 14 along Rand St. between Markham Ave. and Green St., next to the Pearl Mill Bioretention Area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group also holds community tree giveaways, such as one conducted at Hillside High School on Saturday, where local residents can take home trees to plant on their own properties. Some community members also have reached out to Bordley directly for trees and tree plantings.<\/span> A PTA member at Hope Valley Elementary School recently called to bring in fifty trees for an installation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bordley has no easy way to track where the trees end up after tree giveaways. \u201cYou can imagine a system where people will send you a little picture of their tree once they planted it, and the date they put it in the ground, and you could try to keep stats on how many got in the ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Panther Creek Forest Farm recently received a $10,000 grant from Durham County Soil & Water Conservation District to develop an irrigation system. Bordley and his daughter also dream of creating an outdoor school<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing’s just led to another, but they all do good,\u201d he says. \u201cThey’re all leading to more trees in the ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Above: Clay Bordley at work at Panther Creek Farm. Photos by Kulsoom Rizavi \u2014 The 9th Street Journal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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